SkyNet: A modular nuclear reaction network library

Understand

Almost all of the elements heavier than hydrogen that are present in our solar system were produced by nuclear burning processes either in the early universe or at some point in the life cycle of stars.

• In all of these environments, there are dozens to thousands of nuclear species that interact with each other to produce successively heavier elements.
• In this paper, we present SkyNet, a new general-purpose nuclear reaction network that evolves the abundances of nuclear species under the influence of nuclear reactions.
• SkyNet can be used to compute the nucleosynthesis evolution in all astrophysical scenarios where nucleosynthesis occurs.